STAND. COM. REP. NO. 834

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 896
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
896 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GUARDIANSHIP PROCEEDINGS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow waiver of notice in
guardianship proceedings where the person cannot be found.

     The provisions governing protection of persons under
disability provide for notice to specified parties, including
grandparents.  This bill allows the court to waive notice, for
good cause, upon a showing that all reasonable efforts have been
made to find the person or give notice to the person, and that
the efforts were unsuccessful and further effort should not be
required. 

     Your Committee finds that while all reasonable efforts
should be made in this situation, once those efforts have been
exhausted, it is appropriate to allow the court to waive notice
and proceed.

     Your Committee has amended the bill by correcting a
reference and by adding the phrase "because that person has not
demonstrated a reasonable degree of interest or concern in the

 
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subject" from subsection (c) to subsection (b) for the purposes
of conformity and clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
896, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 896, S.D. 1, and
be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary,



                                   ______________________________
                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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